In all the roleplaying games in all the world, you have to roleplay in mine… Someone asked me a while back: “Why GURPS?” Well, there are a couple of reasons I use GURPS pretty much exclusively, but let’s ignore me for a bit. Let’s assume that you’ve just stumbled onto my blog: “What is this GURPS thing you […]
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Carpe Blogiem: Aeon Handouts I
So one of the things that I enjoy doing as a GM is creating handouts. Now, before the Digital Age this involved painstakingly hand drawn creations (possibly “aged” with coffee or tea) and it often consumed my time as much as actually planning the game did. Well, these days you can create even more fantastic […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Aeon Team Rosters – Part V
As in the previous posts (see here, here, here, and here) I’m talking about my Aeon campaign and the various teams within it. State of the V-TeamNewly assembled and ready to kick butt, the V-Team consist of characters from a previous (abaonded) supers campaign. A lot of Aeon is built from that world (and one other) and […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Aeon Team Rosters – Part IV
As in the previous posts (see here, here, and here) I’m talking about my Aeon campaign and the various teams within it. State of the C-TeamC-Team has been a bit bumpy. Loss of PK (who was the team lead) and the speeding up of the timeline for them caused a LOT of dissonance. I also […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Aeon Team Rosters – Part III
The current ongoings of my Aeon teams. But first, some notes for the overview of all teams. The State of the Aeon Campaign I finished up part of the technology file for Aeon itself. It clocked in at around 10k worth of words. Sigh. I don’t miss this part of speculative settings. At all. I took a […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: 2016 – A Year In Review
Like my last three years in review. Here are how things went for me in 2016: The Good (What I did well or that went well) I was published in Pyramid a bit this year: #3/87: Low-Tech III (5/5 stars), #3/89: Alternate Dungeons II (4.5/5 stars), #3/90: After the End (5/5 stars), #3/91 Pyramid: Thaumatology IV (5/5 stars), Pyramid #3/93: Cops and Lawyers (5/5 stars), Pyramid #3/95: Overland Adventures (5/5 stars), ##3/97 Pyramid: […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: GURPS Discord
Happy GURPSday! So +Mook Wilson has talked about GURPS Discord on his blog and now I have to do the same. The unofficial GURPS Discord Channel is incredibly useful. There are dozens of users now and I’m not afraid to say I’m one of them. I signed onto the server as soon as Mook put up the link […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: The Dungeon Grappling Kickstarter
So this is a first. I’m going to talk about non–GURPS on my blog for a change. In this case, the various flavors of popular Dungeons and Dragons. (Fair warning – I plan on getting into DnD5e next years so this is likely the first of such posts). The reason I want to talk about this […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: The Final Hours of the Dungeon Fantasy RPG Kickstarter
We’ve done so good, but I wish we could do more. So spread the word. Tell others. Buy games for people. We need to grow the fanbase of GURPS. We’ve needed to do it for a while, but I’m putting out the call now. I’m telling you that if you like GURPS you need to get out […]
Continue readingCarpe Blogiem: Thoughts on the Dungeon Fantasy Kickstarter
Guest Post by Denis McCarthy As a fairly die hard Dungeon Fantasy GM, it should not surprise anyone that I am a big fan of the kickstarter. My dungeon game pre-dates both Dungeon Fantasy and 4e, and I have updated it as the new rules were released. In it’s current incarnation I have been running it for over […]
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